Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Unidentified assailants Sunday raided the home of a lawyer for Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU-PF party, raping a woman they found as politically motivated violence in the country begins to rise ahead of three parliamentary by-elections.
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Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- President Thabo Mbeki has been lambasted by AIDS activists and international media for failing to attend the funeral of Nkosi Johnson, South Africa's youngest AIDS activist.
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Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- Sudan has urged the UN and its aid agencies to dispatch aid to tens of thousands of citizens displaced by the recent rebel attacks on Daim Zubair and Raja localities of Bahr el Ghazal State in southern Sudan.
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Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- A bus carrying three Nigerian government ministers skidded off the road and ran into a ditch during the president's official trip to the northern Sokoto state Friday, media reports said.
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Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Hundreds of mourners gathered on Saturday at the funeral of 12-year-old Nkosi Johnson who touched the hearts of millions of people around the world with his valiant fight against AIDS.
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Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- One of the characteristics of higher education in Africa is that it is facing greater difficulties in Francophone countries - where campuses are overcrowded and too much politicised - than in Anglophone states where the system seems to be running smoothly, less problematic and quieter.
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Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Mairegu Bezabih, former Editor-in-Chief of "Addis Zemen," Ethiopia's official Amharic-language daily, was released on bail late Thursday after spending several months in detention over genocide charges.
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Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- A Kenyan delegation to the on-going International Labour Organisation conference in Geneva, Switzerland, Friday requested the ILO Director General Juan Somavia for technical aid to implement ratified ILO conventions and to review of its labour laws.
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Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenyan has asked the International Labour Organisation (ILO) for technical assistance in the review of labour laws and implementation of the Organisation's Conventions ratified by the country.
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Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- In a bizarre act of revenge, the sacked houseboy of top official of Nigeria's northern state of Katsina has killed his (director's) wife and two children, the local media reported Friday.
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Beitbridge- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Residents of the small southern Zimbabwean border town of Beitbridge were in shock Friday after thieves exhumed 15 fresh graves from the local cemetery to steal coffins, police said.
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Lome- Togo (PANA) -- Togo's Association of Private Press Editors on Thursday announced plans for a series protest actions to press for the release of journalist Lucien Messan Djossou of the weekly "Le Combat du Peuple" currently serving a 12-month sentence.
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Monrovia- Liberia (PANA) -- A UN official Thursday emphasised a looming threat to food security in northern Liberia as she announced the arrival of an additional 30 metric tonnes of relief supplies in the country.
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Bamako- Mali (PANA) -- Mali's ombudsman and founder president of the Malian Human Rights Association, Demba Diallo, died Wednesday in Paris at the age of 76, the national radio announced in Bamako.
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Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- The OAU will next week convene an African Civil Society Conference aimed at promoting civil society in Africa and developing modalities and mechanism that will enhance collaboration between the OAU and African civil society organizations.
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Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- The NGO International Prisons Fraternity, run by a group of American volunteers, has given health care and medicines worth 30 million CFA francs to some 3,000 inmates in Benin's civilian prisons of Cotonou, Abomey, Lokossa and Parakou.
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Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- The gates to virtually all Ivorian prisons have been closed for two days following a strike called on 2 June by the National Union of Prison Warders (SYNAPAP-CI).
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Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Handkerchief and serviette hawkers as well as private garbage collectors appear headed for a fortune in the Kenyan town of Eldoret, if the municipal council lands a new legislation barring, among other things, careless spitting and nose blowing.
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Bamako- Mali (PANA) -- The Secretary-General of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), Abdelouahed Belkeziz in Bamako to prepare for the Organisation's 28th Foreign Ministers meeting slated for 25-29 June in the Malian capital.
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Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Thirty-seven new applications from companies wishing to benefit from the ECOWAS Trade Liberalisation Scheme will be considered during the ongoing meeting of the organisation's Trade, Customs, Taxation, Statistics, Money and Payments Commission.
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Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Amid threats of salary stoppages and an ultimatum to return to work, teachers at Nigeria's universities have resolved not to call off their two-month strike, which they called to press for better remuneration and more funding for the institutions.
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Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria police has moved the 14 children found hidden in a bus in Lagos Monday to its Criminal Investigation Department in the city to continue with the investigation into the incident.
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Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- Lecturers at the National University of Benin, grouped in the Autonomous Research and Higher Education Union (SYNARES), have rejected a five-year education ban imposed on four university students who are blamed for violent demonstration that took place earlier in the year.
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Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Amnesty Committee Wednesday granted amnesty to 23 apartheid-era security police officers for several offences, including the attempted murder of a former leader of the South African Communist Party Chris Hani in Lesotho in 1980.
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Kisumu- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenyan police in Kisumu confirmed Thursday that five suspected pirates had been killed on Lake Victoria and an assortment of firearms recovered after a fierce gun-battle with security personnel on patrol in the lake.
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Keetmanshoop- Namibia (PANA) -- Keetmanshoop Rural Constituency's councillor Albert Krohne has praised plans by Namibia's Prisons and Correctional Services minister Marco Hausiku to introduce community service for offenders sentenced to less than a year.
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Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Tension is mounting at northern Kenya's Daadab refugee camp where its occupants are threatening to stage a hunger strike to protest the drastic reduction of regular rations by the UN World Food Programme (WFP).
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Monrovia- Liberia (PANA) -- A group of Liberian ex-combatants from the disbanded Lofa Defence Force (LDF), has flogged a Deputy cabinet Minister for allegedly being in possession of a vehicle belonging to his dead colleague, according to local press reports Wednesday.
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Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- French-based Reporters without Borders (RSF), whose Africa bureau is based in Abidjan, has protested against the decision to deport Liberian journalist Darryl Ambrose Nmah of Radio Gold, a private station in Accra.
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Lilongwe- Malawi (PANA) -- Plans are underway between Malawian and US cultural authorities to ferry back to Malawi a 12-metre long skeleton of a 100 million-year-old dinosaur from its adopted home in a museum in Texas.
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Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Former fighters of Zimbabwe's war of Independence face an uncertain future after the death last Monday of their charismatic leader Chenjerai Hunzvi, pundits believe.
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